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Just about to put ours in the oven now. Serving with fried egg on top.

good to see Black country museum on yesterday's early evening national news, ITV I think.

Thank you for that. I have just read this on my 70th birthday and I'll try to live by it from now on Carolann

I have just looked up Cheswick in my dictionary of place names and it means a farm where cheese is made. Could there have been a dairy farm there?

I as on housekeeping/catering C&G 147 and 151 also HCI nutrition. I started the thread in 2016. did you continue with a career in food?

Yes I do I remember my 18 th birthday there in December 1968! and I remember standing in line for Prince Phillip. Which course were you on? Carolann

I used to teach my pupils that having transferable skills would make them more employable in the future. When jobs become defunct people need to avoid becoming deskilled and must try to draw on any, and all, skills they have acquired. This advice is becoming more and more relevant today. The...

It is possible by DNA, as shown by a recent case of a man who was found on the embankment in London as a baby during the second world war. Julia Bell did extensive research and he has now found out who his parents were and has met up with family. A DNA test with Ancestry and the help of a...

One of the things that a lot of people either didn't know of have forgotten about the 11+ is that it was not based purely on the tests.it was dependant upon the number of grammar and technical places available in your area. It also depends on the number of places for girls, there were fewer, so...

My husband, who worked as a scientist with alginate in the 70s, says that sodium alginate is used as a stabilizer in chocolate milk and drinking chocolate. Alginate is extracted from seaweed.(makes the foam on the sea!) Perhaps the connection is with Bournville?

I was married there in Sept 1975

I am sure that they used to sell trolls at Gills toy shop in Sutton Parde where I worked as a Saturday girl.

If your Father is still alive he can apply for his adoption records. As far as i am aware you are not able to access them. You need to know the court from which the adoption was granted.

On reading this this morning I know just how they feel. Our house is on the River Lea Navigation. Since lock down, going for my daily exercise walk. which I did before lockdown, has become a really unpleasant, stressful experience. The tow paths are like an Olympic training route for runners and...

I was at school with a John Hurley at St Josephs primary school in Sutton Coldfield in the 1950s.

Even though I was only 6 years old I vividly remember the Queen driving past and the Native Americans and Wigwams.

I was bought up in Rectory road Sutton and used to watch the steam trains from my garden. I also used to love standing under the railway bridge in Rectory road while they went overhead, The noise and that unforgettable smell of steam and smoke!

Thank you.

Brilliant. Thant you. I will look at the Sutton Coldfield history archive. Carolann

Thank you.